Islam, Liberalism and Human Rights: Third Edition

✍ Scribed by Katerina Dalacoura

• Publisher: I. B. Tauris
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 251
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This timely book, newly revised for this edition, addresses the question of human rights in the international context, focusing in particular on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies. Katerina Dalacoura's argument proceeds at two levels. Firstly, it reaches a consistent normative position on the question of human rights. Secondly, the theoretical argument is reinforced through a detailed study both of the precepts of Islam and the role of Islam in the political process of 20th century Egypt and Tunisia. Dalacoura demonstrates that the interpretation of Islam in relation to human rights principles is not static, but is subject to reformulation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Preface to the Third Edition......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1. Human Rights and Authenticity......Page 19
2. Islam and Human Rights......Page 52
3. Egypt, 1920s-1930s......Page 89
4. Egypt, 1970s-1900s......Page 127
5. Tunisia, 1970s-1990s......Page 164
6. The Prospects of Islamic Liberalism in the Middle East......Page 205
Conclusion......Page 213
Bibliography......Page 223
Index......Page 245

✦ Subjects

Религиоведение;Религиоведение ислама;